Hi On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 09:22:29PM +0000, softworkz . wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Michael > > Niedermayer > > Sent: Montag, 2. Juni 2025 21:35 > > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> > > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] The "bad" Patch > > > > Hi, > > > The CC needs someone who is good at mediating (or what you call it) thats > > marth64 > > +1 > > > > And the CC needs someone who can recognize defamation and document it > > accurately. Ive not seen anyone except softworkz document things as he did. > > Admittedly, the motivation was high, since I've been in focus. Naturally, > I had been upset about specific persons at the beginning, but the more I > had reconstructed the sequence of events, I realized that the way how > things had developed and escalated further,
> was more complex and driven > by many actors, most of which never had much bad intentions and acted > without being aware about the consequences of their own actions. +1 I believe 99.9% of people have good intentions on this ML not 100% though > Asked about it, I'm sure most of them would think and say that they would > have had nothing to do with it at all and it wasn't their own fault. > But in a community, when several people do just little wrong > individually, this can sum up very quickly and easily. > > The motivations behind documenting the events are multifold: > > - When we better understand the origins and mechanisms of how that > "toxicity" is formed and unfolds, then we might better be able to > take measures to reduce it in the future +1 I belive documenting things is the first step in solving them. [...] > > To me, it seems that people are afraid that this could be taken as > weakness or incompetence - which is a fundamental misconception. > Even in technical discussions, I see that people rather stop > responding than admitting, when they realize they were wrong about > something. But the opposite is true: not admitting is weak > behavior. Theres alot of variation here i think from not even internally admiting to people who do admit publically they where wrong. and also people stoping responding when a discussion becomes too toxic (as in "dont feed the trolls") thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein
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